Air Quality Demonstration

Prepared for the 18th ESIP Federation Meeting

January 3, 2007

1. Air Quality Community Support through New Information Technologies (screencast by Husar and Robinson)

2. Forest Fire Smoke Event Analysis

Based on Robinson, Husar demonstration at IGARSS

Demonstration of interoperable data and analysis services for analyzing a forest fire smoke event

Event Knowledge into the Minds of

EPA Analysts

Knowledge into the Minds of

State Analysts

DSS for Regulatory Exceptional Event Decisions (Husar, 2006)

Observations

Event Reports:Model Forecasts,

Obs. Evidence

Models

DecisionsEvent Knowledge into the Minds of

EPA Regulators

Decision Support System

GEOSS Architecture Framework

DatasetsDataset Data Type Provider Access Type

Fire Occurrence Satellite NOAA NGDC HMS

WFS / WMS

Smoke Areas Satellite NOAA NGDC HMS

WMS

GOCART Aerosol Model

Model NASA WMS / WCS

MODIS Aerosol Optical Thickness

Satellite NASA GSFC Giovanni

URL Template

PM2.5 Concentrations Surface Monitors

EPA AirNOW SQL Server

Visibility Surface Monitors

Plymouth St. Weather Center

URL Template

TOMS Aerosol Index Satellite NASA URL Template

OMI NO2 Satellite ESA URL Template

OMI NO2 Satellite NASA GSFC WCS

Note: This is not a comprehensive list of available fire/smoke/air quality datasets.

OGC Web Map Service (WMS) Example

NOAA HMS Analyzed Smoke Areas

http://gdsg.ngdc.noaa.gov/gdsg/FiresWMS?&layers=Analyzed Smoke&bbox=-130,22,-66,60&TIME=2006-07-06 &width=800&height=600&reaspect=false&format=image/png

OGC “Web Feature Service (WFS)–esque” Example

NOAA HMS Fire Locations (not a compliant OGC WFS)

http://gdsg.ngdc.noaa.gov/firesMapserver/servlet/fireswfs?SERVICE=wfs&REQUEST=GetFeature&VERSION=1.0.0&TypeName=hms&BBOX=-125.3889,22.55111,-61.40667,51.20889&TIME=2006-07-06&CRS=EPSG:4326&outputFormat=CSV

OGC Web Coverage Server (WCS) - Points

http://webapps.datafed.net/ogc_EPA.wsfl?SERVICE=WCS&REQUEST=GetCoverage&VERSION=1.0.0&CRS=EPSG:4326&COVERAGE=AIRNOW.pmfine&TIME=2006-07-06T14:00:00&BBOX=-130,24,-65,52,0,0&WIDTH=-1&HEIGHT=-1&DEPTH=-1&FORMAT=dataset-schema

URL Template Example

http://g0dup05u.ecs.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/Giovanni/Giovanni_cgi.pl?west=-180&north=90&east=180&south=-90&data=0%23%23%23Aerosol+Optical+Depth+at+0.55+Micron+%28Daytime%29&landocean=landocean&type=Area+Plot&b_year=2006&b_month=August&b_day=6&e_year=2006&e_month=August&e_day=6&end_date=2006%2F08%2F06&data_limit=2404&cbar=cpre&cmin=&cmax=&tpbar=tpdyn&tpmin=&tpmax=&tpint=&asc_res=1.0&global_cfg=global.cfg.pl&data_sys=modis&pid=MOD08_D3&action=ASCII+Output

NASA GSFC Giovanni

Data and Service Sharing & Networking

DataFedViewer

NOAA HMSSatellite Fire Application

NASA GSFC GiovanniMOVAS

GoogleMapsFire/AQ Mashup

Education ClusterUSGS MapView

Application

DataFedWCS / WMS

NOAA HMSWMS / WFS

NASA GSFCGiovanni

EPA AirNOWEPA AirNOW

Browser

Portals, Catalogs

Applications

Data

ESIP EIE NASA ESG

EPA ScienceConnector

GOS

GCMD

ECHO

Identified fire locations

http://webapps.datafed.net/datafed.aspx?page=ESIPJan07/Can_US_FireLocs

Evaluated Smoke Pattern

http://webapps.datafed.net/datafed.aspx?page=ESIPJan07/Can_US_FireLocswSmoke

Satellite Observations

TOMS AI

MODIS AOT

http://webapps.datafed.net/datafed.aspx?page=ESIPJan07/Can_US_Smoke_06

Surface Observations

Extinction Coefficient

Particulate Matter

http://webapps.datafed.net/datafed.aspx?page=ESIPJan07/Can_US_Smoke_06

Aerosol ModelGOCART

http://webapps.datafed.net/datafed.aspx?page=ESIPJan07/Can_US_Smoke_06

Time Series Analysis

Selected Location

July 6, 2006

http://webapps.datafed.net/datafed.aspx?page=ESIPJan07/Can_US_Smoke_06

Grid Operator Processing Service

Input Grid 12006-06-27

Input Grid 22006-07-07

http://webapps.datafed.net/datafed.aspx?page=ESIPJan07/GOCART_Time_Diff

Settings

GoogleMaps Mashup

http://niceguy.wustl.edu/FireGoogle/

GoogleMaps API +HTML +Javascript = Web Application

Air Quality Cluster Breakout Session

Tomorrow9:00-11:00